Murky Depths bylined as "The Quarterly Anthology of Graphically Dark Speculative Fiction" is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 horror

Horror fiction magazine

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 and science fiction magazine

Science fiction magazine

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 which began publishing in 2007. The magazine editor-in-chief is Terry Martin

Terry Martin (publisher)

Terry Martin is chief executive of United Kingdom-based publishers The House of Murky Depths who publish the quarterly science fiction and horror anthology Murky Depths, and other comics and paperback books....

 and the editor is Anne Stringer. The magazine is published four times a year. It blends illustrated prose short stories with comic strips. Since Issue #3 it has featured a gloss laminated card cover, whereas Issue #1 and #2 covers were on the same paper stock as the contents. From Issue #7 the cover artwork has been wraparound. Its size is unusual for a magazine, being American comic book

American comic book

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 or graphic novel format. Murky Depths received the British Fantasy Awards Best Magazine/Periodical in 2010 and is currently shortlisted for the same award for 2011 which will be announced at Fantasycon in Brighton, UK on 2 October, 2011.

Issues to date

• Murky Depths Issue #1 - September, 2007 - ISBN 978-1-906584-01-6
• Murky Depths Issue #2 - December, 2007 - ISBN 978-1-906584-02-3
• Murky Depths Issue #3 - March, 2008 - ISBN 978-1-906584-03-0
• Murky Depths Issue #4 - June, 2008 - ISBN 978-1-906584-04-7
• Murky Depths Issue #5 - September, 2008 - ISBN 978-1-906584-05-4
• Murky Depths Issue #6 - Winter, 2008 - ISBN 978-1-906584-10-8
• Murky Depths Issue #7 - Spring, 2009 - ISBN 978-1-906584-11-5
• Murky Depths Issue #8 - Summer, 2009 - ISBN 978-1-906584-12-2
• Murky Depths Issue #9 - Autumn, 2009 - ISBN 978-1-906584-14-6
• Murky Depths Issue #10 - Winter, 2009 - ISBN 978-1-906584-15-3
• Murky Depths Issue #11 - Spring, 2010 - ISBN 978-1-906584-18-4
• Murky Depths Issue #12 - Summer, 2010 - ISBN 978-1-906584-20-7
• Murky Depths Issue #13 - Autumn, 2010 - ISBN 978-1-906584-21-4
• Murky Depths Issue #14 - Winter, 2010 - ISBN 978-1-906584-23-8
• Murky Depths Issue #15 - Spring, 2011 - ISBN 978-1-906584-25-2
• Murky Depths Issue #16 - Summer, 2011 - ISBN 978-1-906584-26-9
• Murky Depths Issue #17 - Autumn, 2011 (print error: Summer, 2011 on back cover) - ISBN 978-1-906584-28-3
• Murky Depths Issue #18 - Winter, 2011 - ISBN 978-1-906584-29-0

Contributing writers

Authors published by Murky Depths have included Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin

Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies...

, Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a British science fiction and fantasy author.He was born in Valletta, Malta, grew up in Britain, Southeast Asia and Norway in the 1960s and 1970s. He studied at Kingston College, then worked in publishing and as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers including The...

, Stan Nicholls

Stan Nicholls

Stan Nicholls has been a full-time writer since 1981. He is the author of many novels and short stories but is best known for the internationally acclamied Orcs: First Blood series....

, Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster

Eugie Foster is a Nebula Award winning Asian American short story writer, columnist, and editor. Her stories have been published in a number of magazines and book anthologies, including Fantasy Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, and Interzone. Her...

, Richard Calder

Richard Calder

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, Edward Morris, Chris Huff, Matt Wallace, R. D. Hall, Mike Carey, Juliet E. McKenna

Juliet E. McKenna

Juliet E. McKenna is a British fantasy author. She was born in Lincolnshire in 1965, and studied Greek and Roman history and literature at St Hilda's College, Oxford...

 and Lavie Tidhar

Lavie Tidhar

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Cover artists

Murky Depths cover artists have included Les Edwards

Les Edwards

Les Edwards is a British illustrator known for his work in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres, and has provided numerous illustrations for book jackets, posters, magazines, record covers and games during his career...

, Edward Miller

Edward Miller

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, Steve Stone

Steve Stone (artist)

Steve Stone is a digital artist known for his fantasy and science fiction cover illustrations as well as video game art, contemporary abstract art and multimedia productions. Some of Stone's work is comparable to the work of H. R...

, Richard Calder, Chris Moore

Chris Moore (illustrator)

Chris Moore is a British illustrator, particularly noted for his book covers, especially in the field of science fiction.He has created cover images for works by many of the most famous authors in science fiction, including since 1998 the majority of book covers for Orion Publishing's SF...

 and Geoff Taylor

Geoff Taylor

Geoff Taylor is an English fantasy artist. He has illustrated books for famous fantasy writers such as Robert Holdstock, Philip K. Dick, David and Leigh Eddings, Graham Edwards, Raymond E. Feist, Katharine Kerr, J. R. R. Tolkien, Roger Zelazny, and David Zindell...

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Comic artists

Murky Depths comic strip artists have included Robert Rankin

Robert Rankin

Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies...

, Luke Cooper, David Ryan, Lucas Hinchley, Richard Calder, Leonardo M. Giron and Neil Roberts.

Story illustrators

Murky Depths story illustrators have included Nancy Farmer, Ed Norden, Jason Beam, Glen James, James Fletcher, Mark Bell and Nathaniel Milljour

Nathaniel Milljour

Nathaniel Milljour is a self-taught Canadian Artist, painter and sculptor. He splits his time between Alberta, and British Columbia, Canada.In 2007, he established a small studio gallery in downtown Calgary under the name 'Adore Designs Studio and Gallery'...

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Awards

• Voted Best Magazine/Periodical in the British Fantasy Awards 2010
• Cover of Issue #4 by Vincent Chong shortlisted for BSFA Best Artwork 2008
• "Looking In Looking Out" by Martin Deep nominated for BSFA Best Artwork 2007

External links

• Murky Depths
• The House of Murky Depths